Canada to Limit SARS Testing
Unless a New Outbreak Occurs

TORONTO -- Canadian health officials, seeking to prevent imperfect laboratory tests from triggering a SARS panic, plan to restrict SARS testing on patients with respiratory symptoms unless there is another outbreak.

A cluster of summer colds at a British Columbia nursing home attracted international attention last month when Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory found evidence of a coronavirus that it said bore striking similarities to the coronavirus that caused last spring's deadly outbreak of severe acute...